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So the asking price she would have, she is in a better bargaining position to maximize the potential of this team. even though he would still get a pretty penny he cant maximize it the way she can. because he is the one who sullied the reputation. >> and steven, you have no doubt there would be a major bidding war. a lot of people want to buy the l.a. clippers. if were talking a billion dollars some suggest they could wind up getting even more. >> i have no doubt about this. but wolf, if you cou...

Simply trying to strengthen his bargaining position ahead of tomorrows talks, or maybe its both. >> right. i think those are good points. those are kind of leading hypotheses. and you know, i talked to somebody yesterday whos an expert in the region. former state department official who was saying a big problem here is we dont exactly know what putin thinks. we dont know what his game is. we dont know his end game. we dont foe how far he wants to go. we dont know what his limits are. a big probl...

Pass going to fail because the israelis will not sacrifice their security for this. but secondly, were a country of laws and we dont have a president that will willy-nilly, as part of a bargaining position, let people out of jail. if theres a legal reason to do it, fine. if you think its going to sweeten the deal to make a better deal and maybe somehow peace talks will get back on track. i think we need to think again. >> or if hes freed and talks fail. what does that get you? >> what precedent ...

Up. they say enough is enough. >> why is karzai doing this? >> reporter: i think if you look at his end goal he seems to be focusing on the elections next year. the last time he seems to have a bargaining position with the u.s. once this deal is done u.s. troops can be there ten years and aid not set in stone but laid out more clearly. the last time presidential elections the u.s. were very critical of the procedures around that and im pretty sure hell look ahead to make sure the next president ...

Seems to have merit. the nuclear reactor under construction in iraq and if completed could easily produce enough weapons of plutonium for one or two weapons per year. however the deal being proposed would have stopped that process from going forward. if frances objections can be assuaged, those of the other opponents cannot. benjamin netanyahu wants them to have no enrichment capacity at all. for iran thats a red line. its not entirely fair whether netanyahu is a bargaining position or if hell d...

Again, they can score political points. is that a smart strategy? >> i think its unrealistic. i dont think that any republican embarrassment over this shutdown andño the drop in the favorability of the partyxdñr does not mean theyre going to go along with whateverñiv wants sufficient to get a bill on immigration reform, sufficient to get a budget deal and who knows about the farm bill. when the president is standing there talking about the farm bill being one of his major elements, that shows...

Again, they can score political points. is that a smart strategy? >> i think its unrealistic. i dont think that any republican embarrassment over this shutdown andño the drop in the favorability of the partyxdñr does not mean theyre going to go along with whateverñiv wants sufficient to get a bill on immigration reform, sufficient to get a budget deal and who knows about the farm bill. when the president is standing there talking about the farm bill being one of his major elements, that shows...

A forcing mechanism. it should stay in place forever and substitute mandatory much better for longer hall than discretionary cuts. hopefully that is whats going to happen. the whole framework of how this is set up is to try to use that moment as much as possible, to get congress to do things we should have done two or three or four years ago. >> senator corker, thanks very much. thanks for keeping us on top of it today. joining us david axelrod, analyst for nbc news and senior adviser to preside...

Around and do this all over again in january. there is also this. democrats main concern according to reporting in the washington post is scaling back sequester cuts, making sure once the government is open and running again, it is not at the drastically reduced funding levels we have been operating at because of the deal that was struck the last time there was a debt ceiling fight. there are -- these are sure signs that democrats think they are in a strong bargaining position here. bargaining i...

The credit of the united states in order to improve a bargaining position and basically, force the united states into a hold hostage situation. that isnt helpful. that isnt productive. the boxed canyon. when we solve that, as soon as the government is back operating, as soon as the debt limit is not threatened by extremism and we can not have that shadow fall over our economy, well negotiate on everything. >> let me respond to both of those. first of all what you said is simply not true. i am a ...